Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw.

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Children: a torment and nothing more.

The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left.

Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence of music I have the illusion of feeling things I don't really feel, of understanding things I don't understand, being able to do things I'm not able to do... Can it really be allowable for anyone who feels like it to hypnotize another person, or many other persons, and then do what he likes with them? Particularly if the hypnotist is the first unscrupulous individual who happens to come along?